Press & Awards

Press & Awards

Stonover Farm looks like it’s straight out of storybook with its detailed, blue-trimmed hay-barn and lush, manicured grounds. As if the setting couldn’t sound sweeter, we’d like to point out the charming duck pond (!), greenhouse + grand country inn (perfect for guest accommodations for the big day). Since they only host a few weddings each year, availability is extremely limited, only adding to this place’s appeal. If you’re getting hitched in Massachusetts in 2016, reach out…

Plan your leaf-peeping trip around one of these inns with spectacular views of fall colors. Travel+Leisure September 2014 By Everett Potter Stonover Farm, Lenox, MA In the heart of the Berkshires, Stonover Farm was built in 1890 as a gentleman’s farm and opened to guests in 2001. The Inn has eight luxury suites and sits beside a duck pond with 10 surrounding open acres. There’s a well-stocked library, three working…

By Geoff Edgers | Globe Staff September 27, 2014 LENOX — It’s early morning in the Berkshires and Tom Werman, owner of Stonover Farm and the man who, in a previous life, produced rock anthems for Cheap Trick and Twisted Sister, is flipping something he calls the “Tomlette.” It’s a healthy serving of eggs with sautéed mushrooms and goat cheese. “You can either be healthy,” he says, describing the multiple offerings…

Takes a Village: Country-chic weddings created with DIY style. Excerpt from Berkshire Magazine, September 2014, by Jessica Provenz.
Lily Thorne and Simon Davenport wanted a modern/country wedding but had a strict budget of $20,000. So, Thorne’s family got creative. “For months, my family went out into the woods to forage for moss for the centerpieces,” says Thorne, a West Stockbridge native and merchandise manager at Bird, a Brooklyn-based fashion boutique. She wanted to get married at the Barn Gallery at Stonover Farm in Lenox.

WAMC Northeast Radio Broadcast January 15, 2014 A former heavy metal rock music producer based in Los Angeles is now enjoying success as an innkeeper in the Berkshires. The sounds Tom Werman used to hear came from a smoke-filled windowless music studio when he was producing records for rock groups like Cheap Trick, Motley Crue, Twisted Sister, Poison and Ted Nugent. Now, his ears ring with the sounds from a…

Berkshire Eagle 11/18/13 By Derek Gentile, Berkshire Eagle Staff LENOX — Tom Werman now runs a popular inn with his wife Suki, but in an earlier incarnation, he was a successful rock producer in New York and Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s. On Sunday, as part of the Lenox Library’s Distinguished Lecture Series, he spoke of the fun and frustration of that job before an overflow crowd of…

Not only did Annie Selkie of Pine Cone Hill help spruce up Stonover’s suites, and shoot her fall Dash & Albert Rug Company catalog here; she also chose our kitty Little Man to appear in the catalog. Annie is famous for including her own dogs and those of her friends and employees, but Little Man is her first feline model – a catalog cat!

Rural Intelligence, July 15, by Shawn Hartley Hancock — “Our guests, basically, enter through the kitchen,” says Tom Werman, owner and proprietor of Stonover Farm, the luxury B&B a mere two miles from Tanglewood that he runs with his wife, Suky. “We like it that way,” he says. He’s hinting, of course, at the famous omelets he makes for guests on the inn’s impressive Aga cooker, as well as to the…

Huffington Post, by Michael Sigman — For Tom Werman, producing is producing, For Tom Werman, producing is producing, whether it’s a multi-platinum album by Mötley Crue or a “Tomelette” — Werman’s signature breakfast treat at Stonover Farm, the popular New England Bed & Breakfast he runs with his wife Suky. Werman made his name as the go-to producer for hard-rock and heavy-metal masters from the 1970s to the ’90s. Nearly two…

Sleek and sophisticated retreats can indulge modern sensibilities: Boston Globe, October 10, 2010 by Necee Regis In the Berkshires, Stonover Farm is a contemporary oasis in a landscape awash with calico, taffeta, and lace. The owners lived in Los Angeles for 23 years before opening this B&B, which might account for the stripped down elegance of the decor and the first-class attention to details, such as bathrooms with two-headed showers,…